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The Career Path Tournament: Developing Awareness of Sociological Barriers to Career Advancement
Author(s) -
Scholl Mark B.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1999.tb00733.x
Subject(s) - tournament , career path , coping (psychology) , psychology , career development , social psychology , sociology , applied psychology , management , clinical psychology , economics , mathematics , combinatorics
The author of this article presents the Career Path Tournament, a game for heightening participants' awareness of sociological factors (e.g., race, gender, and discrimination in hiring) influencing career advancement and of the need to anticipate and cope with these factors. The game, which is based on Rosenbaum's (1976, 1981, 1984) Tournament Model, is intended for junior high, high school, and college students in a classroom setting. Undergraduate participants' ( N = 74) quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the game are presented as evidence that the game raised awareness of sociological barriers and provided participants with helpful suggestions for adaptively coping with these barriers.